How the brain evolved language / Donald Loritz.
How the brain evolved language / Donald Loritz.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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T0383501
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English
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227 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Lought and Thanguage -- 2. Jones's Theory of Evolution -- 3. The Communicating Cell -- 4. The Society of Brain -- 5. Adaptive Resonance -- 6. Speech and Hearing -- 7. Speech Perception -- 8. One, Two, Three -- 9. Romiet and Juleo -- 10. Null Movement -- 11. Truth and Consequences -- 12. What If L...
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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"How can infinite language be generated from a finite mind? How could language have evolved from apes? How could apes have evolved from protozoa? How could protozoa have evolved from rocks? In a highly readable series of thought experiments, the first half of How the Brain Evolved Language retraces the steps by which Darwinian evolution selected fi...
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How the brain evolved language / Donald Loritz.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.
Transferred from N401/95.
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T0383501
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74Vvgv2mlKLd
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0195151240 (pbk)
019511874X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780195151244 (pbk.)
0195151240 (pbk.)
9780195151244 (pbk)
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401
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991012220269702626
